They Might Be Avengers

With the advent of iTunes, Matthew has access to our complete music library. And since this is Kev and me we’re talking about, that music library is extensive and eclectic.  Matthew has a tendency to explore our collection and while he has his continual favorites (Michael Buble, Dinosaur Train, Star Trekkin’ from Dr. Demento…apparently his tastes are as eclectic as those of his parents) he is always finding random stuff and loving it for awhile. One of his latest discoveries has been the album “Flood” by They Might Be Giants.

This album always takes me back to high school when they were not singing songs for the teeny boppers, but for the random minded.  In my sophomore and junior years of high school there was this big group of us that hung out all the time and there were media choices that were repeated time and time again…”Flood” and “Return of the Killer Tomatoes” were two of those choices. Gives you an idea of just how random we liked it. But I digress.  Back to Matthew.

Matthew’s favorite song from “Flood” is “Particle Man.”  I can’t say that I blame him.  It is enormously catchy and one of my favorites as well.  He also has a tendency to make up songs…or just new lyrics to songs he already knows. Given his love of all things Avengers, I should not have been surprised when I started hearing an Avengers song around the house. He has verses for Captain America, Hulk, Loki, The Avengers as a whole and even Wolverine, but my favorite verse is this one:

The Many Faces of Matthew

Yesterday Matthew was grounded from screens for lying to me. For him, that is just about the worst punishment in the world. When Malia goes down for a nap, Matthew usually gets to watch t.v. for a bit so being grounded from screens is a blow. When it happens, he usually asks me to print him some pictures to color. When he asked for Avengers coloring pages yesterday, I happened to come across something much, much better. 

 (I love how he always throws out his chest when he has his arc ‘rejector’ on.)

He cut them all out (except some of the super tricky tabs) and this morning I helped him glue and tape them in all the appropriate places. And then Daniel helped him create a Captain America shield out of a cracker box.  If you have a little (or maybe not so little seeing as I’ve seen Daniel in these as well) Avengers fan, you have to check out these masks!